Dry-board hook



(No Model.)

T. F. BARN UM DRY BOARD HOOK.-

No 334,927. Patented Jan. 26, 18 86 ATTORNEY Nv PETERS, Phokn-Ulhngrapher. Washingiurn D. (Iv

NITE STATES arnnr rrrcn.

THEODORE F. BARNUM, OF TROY, NE- YORK.

DRY-BOARD HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 33 1,5327, dated January 26, 1856.

Application filed July 2, 1885. Serial No. 170,552. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE F. BARNUM, a resident of the city of Troy, in the county of Renssela r and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dry'Board Hooks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, that will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

My invention relates to improvements in dry-board hooks. The object of my invention is to provide a cheaply-constructed hook for dry-boards that can be quickly and accurately adjusted and securely held in place upon the board.

My invention consists in providing a double hook with a flanged shank adapted to receive one edge of the board between the flanges.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a front elevation of an undershirt stretched upon a dry-board. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of same. Fig. 3 is a top view of a dry-board partly closed and in position to receive a shirt. Fig. 4 is a top plan view on an enlarged scale of a dry-board hook detached.

In manufacturing and preparing knit goods for the trade a part of the process consists in washing the goods and placing them upon forms, called dry-boards, to dry and acquire a uniform and symmetrical shape, after which they are removed, finished, and packed in boxes for shipment.

The dry-board is a simple frame, A, centrally hinged at H H. When it is desired to introduce the frame within ashirt, it is folded to about the position shown in Fig. 3. The flaps and body part of the shirt are drawn over the horizontal arms of the frame, the latter inserted within the arms of the shirt, and the frame opened out until the arms are in one and the same straight line, as shown in Fig. l and 2. Two rods, d d, are then inserted Within the hem g, at the bottom of the garment, which is inside out, one on each side of the frame or board A. The rods are of sufficient length to cause their ends to project out beyond the shirt and frame, as shown in Fig.

1. The projecting ends of the rods are then.

drawn down and inserted within the hooks a a, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The shirts are thus forced to the same size and shape, and when dry will retain their uniformity.

It is plainly manifest that it is of the greatest importance not only that both ends of each rod should be securely held down, but that both rods should be held in the same horizontal plane.

It frequently happens in washing that one side of the garment will shrink more than the other, which produces an unequal strain upon the hooks, and unless they are securely attached to the board they will tip to one side, or they may work loose in use, or be tipped to one side by a blow while in use. In such a position they are useless, for the reason that the end of the rod cannot be brought under the hook to engage therewith, because the hook, being tipped to one side, projects farther than necessary on that side, and not far enough on the opposite side of the frame or board.

When hooks are attached by means of plain shanks, as has been done heretofore, they are notonly liable to the objection of workingloose and being tipped, as above described, but they more frequently are attached to the frame in a deflected manner, so that one end of one or both rods could not be made to engage with its hook, or would soon disengage itself and become useless.

By providing the shank of the hooks with flanges 0, adapted to receive the edge of the board A between them, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 4, I can not only quickly adjust the hooks to their proper position, but by means of a single screw or bolt, B, securely hold them in place.

The flanges are a positive check upon the tendency of the hooks to tip and render it difficult, if not impossible, for the hooks to be attached to the board in a tipped position. The hooks are preferably made of malleabe cast-iron, and the flanges 0 need not extend to form one continuous strip of metal, but may project at intervals in the nature of teeth or spurs, as shown at G in Fig. 1. The hook may be attached to the board in any desired manner, as by clamps, hooks, nails, or screws.

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By making the flanges O C divergent, as shown in Fig. 4, they can be more easily and rigidly secured to the board, and can easily be made to fit boards which vary slightly in 5 thickness.

I am aware that clothes-hooks have been constructed to slide upon a horizontal rack or rail by providing the same with hooked converging flanges adapted to clasp flanges IO projecting from their supporting-rail, thereby afi'ording the only means of attachment of the hooks to the rail, and I do not claim such a form of construction.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure 1 by Letters Patent, is-

A dry-board hook consisting of a body provided with a hole for screw-clamp, two flanges adapted to clamp one of the vertical bars of said dry-board, and a pair of hooks arranged to receive the horizontal rods there- 20 of, as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 30th day of June, 1885.

THEO. F. BARNUM.

Witnesses GEO. A. MosHER, A. DAVENPORT. 

